Cumulative History Quiz #4

[willemvanoranje]

I kow that one! He was called the primipulus!

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Bingoooo!
Though it's Primipilus

You're next.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Small spelling mistake.........can happen

next: Where was Romulus born?

 

[Kennelly]

Alba Longa?

 

[willemvanoranje]

yupz, that's right!

 

[Kennelly]

Who were the 3 main competitors in the run for Consul in 64 B.C.?

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Darn, I know only 2 of them (I won't give hints), absolutely can't remember the third *want to look up*

 

[willemvanoranje]

Two of them are very clear of course, but I don't know the third either.........

 

[willemvanoranje]

maybe it's time for a new question?

 

[Kennelly]

I think, M.Tullius Cicero and L.Sergius Catilina are clear,right?There were at least three other candidates,but according to Q.Cicero the most important of them was C.Antonius.

Someone can ask another question.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

A bit of an easy one: What were the two Iowa Class battleships that were never completed?

 

[willemvanoranje]

The two *obvious* to me were M. Tullius Cicero and C. Antonius; the ones that became consul......

 

[Evie]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
A bit of an easy one: What were the two Iowa Class battleships that were never completed?

Damn, should know that one... New Jersey, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsion were the four built ones, but the other two...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Yeah, you got that right. Hint: US Battleships were named after States of the Union, as this is the custom of the US Navy in regards to what they regrd as their capital ships. At this stage, SSBNs are awarded such an honour. Every US state had a battleship named after it.

Except Hawai and Alaska, who were territories at the time, and thus got large cruisers (Alaska class; effectively battlecruisers).

 

[DingBat]

Wasn't there a South Dakota? But I thought that one actually saw service.

I don't know as much about the U.S. navy in the Pacific as I should.

/bruce

 

[Evie]

South Dakota and Washington were built earlier than the Iowas. They fought with honor during the Solomons campaign, one of them demonstrating the fast battleship's (as opposed to the old battlewagons) new part in war while running cover for the carrier Enterprise at the battle of Santa Cruz, using even its massive main artillery to deflect Japanesse bombers.

You might say they were the precursors in that role of the more recent AEGIS cruisers.

They also scored big time fighting together in one of the many night battle near Guadalcanal, the Washington sneaking around while the Japanesse were trying to tear South Dakota apart to attack the Japanesse task group at point blank range, resulting eventually in the loss for the Japanesse of a battleship.

 

[Evie]

While I don't know the answer, I know a long list of ships which aren't the answer.

Arkansas
New York
Texas
Nevada
Oklahoma
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Idaho
Mississipi
New Mexico
California
Tennessee
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
Washington
Alabama
Massachussets
Indiana
South Dakota
Iowa
Missouri
New Jersey
Wisconsin

Utah was used as a decomissioned target ship at Pearl. So that's out too.
Ohio wasn't it. I'd know if it shared name with one of the nuke subs.
Alaska and Hawaii weren't state at the time.
Montana was the name of the next-up class after the Iowa. Out.

I'll let you guys guess from there.

 

[DingBat]

Originally posted by Oda Nobunaga
While I don't know the answer, I know a long list of ships which aren't the answer.

Arkansas
New York
Texas
Nevada
Oklahoma
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Idaho
Mississipi
New Mexico
California
Tennessee
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
Washington
Alabama
Massachussets
Indiana
South Dakota
Iowa
Missouri
New Jersey
Wisconsin

Utah was used as a decomissioned target ship at Pearl. So that's out too.
Ohio wasn't it. I'd know if it shared name with one of the nuke subs.
Alaska and Hawaii weren't state at the time.
Montana was the name of the next-up class after the Iowa. Out.

I'll let you guys guess from there.

Lol, I was just about to do the same list. Thanks for allowing me to avoid the work.

By "not completed" I assume that means that construction was actually begun. Otherwise, Montana may be a possible answer.

What's left from your list?

New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Maine
Vermont
Virginia
Kentucky
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Wyoming
Oregon
North Dakota
South Carolina
Minnesota

Now, pick two....

/bruce

 

[Evie]

I think you forgot a state or two in there...

Illinois is nowhere to be seen, that I'm sure...

Now that I think of it...

Wasn't the Illinois one of the two? The other...hmmmm...

North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming, Kentucky...

Those all rings a bell...ND and SC probably because their other halves state (South Dakota and North Carolina) are on the other list.

That leaves Illinois, Wyoming and Kentucky...

I'll take a guess on that lot.

Illinois and Kentucky.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Correct. BB65 was to be Illinois, and BB66 was to be Kentucky.
They were cancelled in 1945, and scrapped in 1958 and 1959 respectively . The bow of the Kentucky was removed in 1956 to help repair the Wisky after a collision.